skills where you're showing empathy to the person involved, but not sympathy, understanding but not agreement. you want to talk them out of the situation without making a bad situation a perilously worse situation. to the lapd's credit, it looks like they did a fine job. you asked earlier who would be in charge of the scene. art roderick correctly mentioned it would be the lapd, unless there was some determination made early on that there was a terror component, meaning the violence was precipitated by an ideological cause or religious fervor or some type of social justice exercise. as long as you can't determine it to be terrorism when the federal government would take over, this is a local matter. two people were shot. police were shot at. it becomes a barricaded subject situation. the lapd, and they're an outstanding police department, would have the lead on this. and it looks like this thing